THE ORIGINAL FUDGE BAR

Jolie had her first fudgsicle.  

She LOVED it.  

She finished it sooo fast.  

She asked for more when she was done.   When I said no more, she was so sad.  

  

FEELIN' LOVED

Today is my birthday.  

I'm 32.

I love when I get to spread the celebrating over more days than just the one day.

Sunday the Brown family had a wonderful family dinner.  They made spaghetti, that yummy potato soup from Olive Garden (my favorite), and my sister in law, Jayme made me this awesome cake. I have such a wonderful in-law family!!!

Tuesday night of this week, my family had a BBQ swim party at my sisters house.

I am in my bathing suit in these pictures, just so you know. And my brother is crazy in the background. We tried to take a picture of me blowing out the candles, but I looked crazy dumb in it, but my brother looks prego in the background. So I cropped me out just to share.  I laughed very hard when I saw that one.

If he doesn't like this picture, too bad! That's what you get for posing in the background of my pictures.

That morning, my mom took me and my girls to see the Jungle Book at the Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre.  The kids loved it. It was not as good as Wicked I got to see last Saturday. 

 Wicked was awesome. I can't wait to take my girls when they get a little older.

I'm not in these pictures, cause I'm taking them.  

Usually I have no problem asking people to take our picture all together. But most of the other people there were kids and parents of those kids who needed to be watching their kids.

Yesterday I bought this for myself for my birthday.

I'm super excited to bring it home this weekend. 

I love having music in the home.

Went out to lunch today with my good friends and some of their kids to Cost Vida. Yummy!!

Not that great of a picture :( oh well.

After lunch, got to come home and take a nap. LOVE NAP TIME!

Tonight I'm going to get my free piece of pie from Village Inn, free Cold Stone Creamery ice cream, and a free Golden Spoon yogurt :)

Tomorrow Morgan and I will go out for dinner and a movie to celebrate even more. 

So that's a total 6 days of celebrating.  FUN.

OCEANSIDE 2009

Our trip this last week in Cali was a beach filled, fun filled time.

We went with my parents, my little brother and his girlfriend, and my two sisters and their families.

My girls had so much fun with their cousins.

Lainey with her cousins.

My parents with my two little twin nieces. They enjoyed the beach too.

This is my brother and two cute nephews.

Avert can't hold in her excitement about getting in the waves.

Avery was an excellent boggy boarder.

Jolie had no fear of the waves. She loved it.

We built lots of sand castles.

Jolie destroyed lots of sand castles.

Finding sand crabs is always a beach thing to do.  

Why? I don't know.  I don't like that part. 

But it keeps them entertained for hours.

Lainey and my brothers girlfriend were like glue.  Well I should say Lainey was like glue to her.  She just loves her so much.  We all do.  She is so fun and nice to all the kids.

Jolie loves her daddy.  

He had to go home early to work.  But we are glad he got to spend most of the time with us there.

FUN IN CALI

The Brown family pictures. We had to ask a stranger to take our picture.  We only got four of all of us together.  Oh well.

We went to a great park for dinner.  Until three skunks came to visit us there.  We left fast. 

INDEPENDENCE DAY USA

We had a fabulous Fouth.  

I first started the day by working.  I am a cleaning lady for those of you who care.  Yup, I have callouss on my hands, like a good old hard working lady.  

(Any one wants me to clean their house, I charge $20 an hour)

Came home and took a nap. (nap time is my favorite time of day:)

Then went to a swimming BBQ at a friends house with some good friends.  It was tons of fun.

We let the kids stay up late, and we went to the fireworks show in Apache Junction.  I must say that I was very impressed with the show.  It was long and they had some fantastic fire works. 

Here are some pictures of our day.

Here's Joiley practicing looking up at fireworks.  

The girls love swimming.  Good times.

Waiting for the fireworks show. It was hot but not too hot.  Lainey has red eyes from swimming too long with no goggles on.  

Let me just let you in on some of our conversation that night.  

"When are they going to start, I'm need to go potty,  Are they going to start yet, I'm thirsty, I'm hot, I don't want to sit on the little chair, Jolie just fell in the rocks, My shirt is stuck to my back, I'm tired, Are they almost over, I'm tired, I want a big chair, My eyes hurt, I'm hot, You better wake up and watch the fireworks or we won't come next year, and you better enjoy them too . . ."

Other than that we had a good time. (I think)

Jolie was a little concerned when they first started shooting off.  

 She didn't know what to think of them.  After about 2 minutes she was done watching.

My camera has an option to take pictures of fireworks.  

Here are some I got.

 I figured out afterwards that I really needed to hold the camera very still while it took the picture. 

Oh well. I think they still look pretty cool.

Happy 4th of July!!!!